Alright people here's the next chapter of my story. I hope you like it. Sorry the chapters are kinda long, but I'm trying to make it as few chapters as I can.
Chapter 11: Kenneth’s End and Amber’s Peace
Matt and the other had finely made it to the spot Amber and Kenneth had been in before the start roof top jumping.
“Where are they Courtney?” Matt demanded sensing something was off.
“I’m not sure the moment that dragon punched Amber, I did what she told me to do and got you.”
“Well she couldn’t be too far,” said Kurama.
“Then you don’t know a dragon very well,” snapped Matt, “Sorry I guess I’m a little on edge.”
“We’re not going to find her by standing here,” said Hiei.
They nodded and hurried off in a direction.
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“What’s wrong? You can’t take the truth?”
“I’m not like you. I don’t like killing.”
“Like it or not you still kill. You try so hard to follow your religion, but in truth you’re no longer a Christian. You have been ever since you killed for the first time. For don’t it say in the bible ‘Thou shalt not kill.’”
“How do you know what I’m like or not, you don’t know me.”
“You don’t recognize me, do you?”
Amber looked at him in confusion. He smiled.
“It’s amazing what a car tells people about a person living habits isn’t it.”
“Car? But I haven’t had a car since…” Amber eyes opened wide.
She could see it now. He had been the dragon that had smelled the blood from the wound to her hand all those years ago. His hair had been blond then and his eyes brown. He smiled.
“There I knew you’d remember me. You got a good look before you fainted. Scared to death you were and if you male dragon friend hadn’t step forth then you just might have been my ally. Of course, if he had left you as a human when he saved you, you’d be dead from all the blood lost and then were would we be today.”
Kenneth stepped forward.
“Now you that you’ve been educated, it’s time to play a bit before the others get here.”
Kenneth charged Amber. Amber duck raising her leg and kicked him in the stomach. Then rising and punched him under the jaw. He flew back and hit a building. She stood there glaring at him. It was his fault she was a dragon to today, she thought then smiled, she had to remember to thank him. For if she had lived her life as a human she wouldn’t have the great friend she had now. Still she missed her family and that wasn’t easy to replace, but in time the wound healed.
“You say pain makes the world, but I say that pain isn’t even half of it. It might be part, but it isn’t all. Pain, sorrow, joy, angry, love, and all the other emotions play a part in make the world. Without all the emotion the other would be nothing.”
Amber walked up to him and put her foot on his chest to hold him down. She then bent down so her face was close to his.
“Because of you, I’ve gone through stuff I never want to again, but because of it I’m stronger. I use to think what my life would have been like if I had never went to the library that night. That was what I use to think, but now I’ve great friends who stand behind me and help me. I was blessed with knowing my family, but God seemed to think that I would be need in the future so he since Matt to help me. You might have played a part, but it was tiny part. Thanks just the same though.”
Amber grabbed the gem fragment
“Thank you,” she said again before pulling it out.
She watched as he became nothing, but dust in the wind. The scales became just a pile of old dragon scales once again. Amber stood and looked down at the fragment in her hand. Kenneth tried to use his word to knock her down so she wouldn’t put up a fight. In the end, it was her words that got him. She closed her hand over the fragment crushing it in dust so no one could use its power again.
“Amber!”
Amber turned around and saw the other rush over to her. She smiled.
“Kenneth gone,” she informed them.
Matt stopped in front of her and raised a hand to her left cheek. He wiped the some of the blood off to get a better look. The blood ran over his finger making them a bit sticky.
“You had me worried,” he said, “thought I’d lose you.”
Amber’s arms went around Matt threw him, the other, and herself off guard, but she didn’t let go. She buried her head in his chest and let go of the tears she held in for some long. The tears of she held for her family and the friends she had lost went she became a dragon, the tears for know that she lost herself for the years after, and the tears for knowing that she found herself again. Amber’s legs gave away and Matt took her into his arms where Amber let her drift off to sleep.
“Things are going to change for her and for us,” Matt said turning to the others, “Now let’s get out of here…quickly.”
They nodded and hurrying into a near by alleyway just as the military came around the corner and into the messy street.
Preview
Chapter 12: Dreaming
“Who said anything about gaining their respect? Do you think that humans deserve to rule the world? Look what their doing to her with their pollution.”
“And you think dragon can to a better job.”
“My dear girl I don’t think I know.”
“And you’re delusional. Dragon aren’t much better then humans. It’d be only a matter of time before dragon would start ruining the world just like the humans.”
He laughed.
“Delusional says you, crazy says another, but whose really to judge me. Surely not you, you who lives with a very dragon that took her humanity.”
“Leave Matt out of this. He had nothing to do with the death of your sister.”
(Note: In chapter 12 Amber is talking to Eve's brother. He's the one that start out in the preview. Also he finely has a name...you'll just have to wait until next time I post.)
